Poilievre strikes positive tone ahead of Conservative caucus meeting [Video]

Conservatives will spend the summer “listening carefully to people” after yet another election loss, leader Pierre Poilievre said on Tuesday as he headed into the party’s first caucus meeting since Canadians went to the polls last week.

Poilievre said there is a lot for the Tories to be proud of in the election results, but pointed to the two-party race as a reason the Liberals won.

“If you had told me that we would get 41 per cent of the vote a couple of years ago, I would have said, ‘Wow, that’s ambitious,”‘ he said.

“But if you told me that we would get 41 per cent of the vote and still not win, I would have said, ‘You’re crazy.'”

Poilievre, who lost his bid to continue representing the riding of Carleton after 20 years as the area’s MP, will not be in the House of Commons when it opens …